Again with the casual breakage! For whatever reason(s) my openmediavault installation decided that it did not want to accept the addition of new shared folders. Yep, the disks are good (well a couple of SMART errors on the spinning rust, but nothing unexpected), everything is updated and yet…

Troubleshooting was non-obvious, so the simple thing to do was to destroy and start again, to “nuke and repave”.

From webgui… 1

set up scheduled copy of WDR4TB-UK to WDR4TB-US…the two Western Digital Red drives in the system (system drive is a ca, 160GB Hitachi SSD). No fancy RAIDing or shit. Just one media drive backed up to another.

install Docker CE

from Docker install–

Emby (plex replacement)

LazyLibrarian

Headphones

¿¿ Nextcloud ?? (already have this on a VPS, but…)

¿¿ Pihole ?? (already have this on a rasp-pi, but for backup?)

¿¿ Podcast server ?? — do I really want ot open up the network?

jupityer notebooks?

¿¿ other docker awesomeness

Installing Docker apps/services all follows the same model. Confusing at first (esp if you do not read the docs), but pretty straightforward. If you get one down the rest will slot nicely into place.

SO… the settings for lazylib:

With PGID and PUID coming from

S id&lt;span class=""&gt;networkdude&lt;/span&gt;

, group and user id respectively.

And the ress of the settigngs coming from info from the docker container…

Sooo, my TP-Link Archer C8 AC1750 Gigabit router decided to not play nice after a short power outage. Didn’t do much anyway except keep a couple of machines in a their own little subnet in which the pi-hole was located.

Replaced it with… NETGEAR GS108Tv2 8-Port Gigabit managed switch and flatten the network a little. Everything was peachy with that set up, but the pihole was still on 172.16.0.0/24… reconfigured that with pihole -r and all looked well except for the pi-hole could not ping outside of the LAN. Grrr! Much hair pulling until…

OF all the delicates which Britons try,
To please the palate, or delight the eye;
Of all the several kinds of sumptuous fare,
There’s none that can with apple-pye compare,
For costly flavour, or substantial paste,
For outward beauty, or for inward taste.

WHEN first this infant dish in fashion came,
Th’ ingredients were but coarse, and rude the frame;
As yet, unpolish’d in the modern arts,
Our fathers eat brown bread instead of tarts:
Pyes were but indigested lumps of dough,
’Till time and just expence improv’d them so.

KING Coll (as ancient annals tell)
Renown’d for fiddling and for eating well,
Pippins in homely cakes with honey stew’d,
Just as he bak’d (the proverb says) he brew’d.

THEIR greater art succeeding princes shew’d,
And model’d paste into a nearer mode;
Invention now grew lively, palate nice,
And sugar pointed out the way to spice.

BUT here for ages unimprov’d we stood,
And apple-pyes were still but homely food;
When god-like Edgar, of the Saxon line,
Polite of taste, and studious to refine,
In the dessert perfuming quinces cast,
And perfected with cream the rich repast:

Hence we proceed the outward parts to trim,
With crinkumcranks adorn the polish’d rim,
And each fresh pye the pleas’d spectator greets
With Virgin fancies and with new conceits.

DEAR Nelly, learn with care the pastry art,
And mind the easy precepts I impart;
Draw out your dough elaborately thin,
And cease not to fatigue your rolling-pin:
Of eggs and butter, see you mix enough;
For then the paste will swell into a puff,
Which will in cmmbling sound your praise report,
And eat, as housewives speak, exceeding short:
Rang’d in thick order let your quincies lie;
They give a charming relish to the pye:
If you are wise, you’l1 not brown sugar slight, T
he browner (if I form my judgment right)
A tincture of a bright vermil’ will shed
And stain the pippin, like the quince, with red.

WHEN this is done, there will be wanting still
The just resewe of cloves, and candy’d peel;
Nor can I blame you, if a drop you take
Of orange water, for perfuming sake;
But here the nicety of att is such,
There must not be too little, nor too much;
If with discretion you these costs employ,
They quicken appetite, if not they cloy.

NEXT in your mind this maxim firmly root,
Never o’er-charge your pye with costly fruit:
Oft let your boclkin thro’ the lid be sent,
To give the kind imprison’d treasure vent;
Lest the fermenting liquors, mounting high
Within their brittle bounds, disdain to lie;
Insensibly by constant fretting waste,
And over-run the tenement of paste.

TO chuse your baker, think and think again,
You’1l scarce one honest baker find in ten:
Adust and bruis’d, I’ve often seen a pye
In rich disguise and costly ruin lie;
While the rent crust beheld its form o’erthrown,
Th’ exhausted apples griev’d their moisture flown,
And syrup from their sides run trickling down.

O BE not, be not tempted, lovely Nell,
While the hot piping odours strongly swell,
While the delicious fume creates a gust,
To lick th’ o’erflowing juice, or bite the crust:
You’ll rather stay (if my advice may rule)
Until the hot is temper’d by the cool;
Oh! first infuse the luscious store of cream,
And change the purple to a silver stream;
That smooth balsamick viand first produce,
To give a softness to the tarter juice.

Delia Smith’s (kinda) — le pâté grossier

It’s in foreign because Number One Son with his most excellent French shamed me into realising that I have been resting on my regarde-mon-stylo, pre-O-level French for too long, and that I really should make more of an effort. How hard can it be, really? On the similarities betwixt English and French, did Dumas not say that English was just French badly pronounced?

Soooo, with apologies to Francophones, and recognition that no google translates were harmed in my butchering of the language, an homage to pâté…

Products from Amazon.co.uk

Getting pretty annoyed with keeping track of which browser on which machine has which add blockers installed, so it’s time for a more holistic approach. Enter, stage left, the Pi-hole. In short it:

…acts as a forwarding DNS server, which means if it doesn’t know where a domain is, it has to forward your query to another server that does. When you install Pi-hole, it knows where the ad-serving domains are (because you tell it), so it doesn’t forward those requests.

With a Rapsberry Pi 3 model b and a 64GB micro SD card, a set-up that is beefier than it needs to be, but who knows what the Pi will be used for in the future…

#1 Get Raspbian, and format micro SD card— after much jiggling with the unlock tab on the adapter and delicately repeatedly inserting-half-inserting into 2012 Macbook Pro’s gunked-up card reader port…

Unbound and setting up resolving/recursive DNS (rather than merely forwarding)

What’s the difference? With forwarding, if a name has not been previously associated with an IP (ie. ached on the pi-hole), the request is sent upstream and the result cahed.

Aaand in recursive… request is sent to ROOT servers for resolving say, “.us”, and thence to TLD name servers. Domain lookup will go to AUTHORATATIVE servers handling “yearl” (and subdomains), and all will be relayed and chached locally. So, a few more steps? Why do this? Neither Cloudflare nor Google (or whatever my upstream DNS would have been) will know where I am going. So, err privacy. Why not do this? It will take longer for the first resolution of a name.

EDIT (2018-06-19): Pi-hole was running quite nicely over wi-fi (assigned to 192.168.0.0), went to put it on the LAN and after removing SD card to placement of the Pi board inso some case the SD card decided to go fuck up. Anyhoo repeated above steps with a new (32GB) SD card, and all appears to be peachy-creamy.

My local radio station has a quiz every once in a while. The questions are hardly “University Challenge”, but there is one question that always is fiendishly tricksy and slippery: to identify a place in the county from an anagram of it.

Constantly getting all but one question correct, it is, of course time to cheat use lateral thinking.